Selfie-based ID raises eyebrows among infosec experts (www.theregister.com)
cross-posted from: lemm.ee/post/36566249...
“Immensely disappointing”: Nike killing app for $350 self-tying sneakers (arstechnica.com)
It is hard to imagine that there was not someone inside of Nike that lost their faith in humanity when the pitch for these things was originally taking off.
Gaza toll could exceed 186,000, Lancet study says (www.aljazeera.com)
www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/…/fulltext
Apex Legends players criticise plans to shake-up how Battle Passes works (www.videogameschronicle.com)
There will be two $10 Battle Passes per season, and they’ll only be purchasable with real money instead of earnable in-game currency
Beryl to intensify as deadly storm barrels towards Texas coast (www.aljazeera.com)
Last Week in Fediverse – ep 76 (fediversereport.com)
A fully-featured review platform for the fediverse with NeoDB...
A look at how settlements have grown in the West Bank over the years (apnews.com)
Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan accused of being ‘serial tax evaders’ (www.theguardian.com)
Self-proclaimed misogynist ‘brazen’ about refusing to pay tax on revenue from online businesses, court told...
Anna's Archive Faces Millions in Damages and a Permanent Injunction * TorrentFreak (torrentfreak.com)
Scalpers Reverse-Engineer Ticketmaster's 'Non-Transferrable' Tickets (www.404media.co)
A lawsuit filed in California by concert giant AXS has revealed a legal and technological battle between ticket scalpers and platforms like Ticketmaster and AXS, in which scalpers have figured out how to extract “untransferable” tickets from their accounts by generating entry barcodes on parallel infrastructure that the...
Long Dark dev criticises Manor Lords for lack of updates, Hooded Horse CEO replies that not every game needs to be "some live-service boom or bust" (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
Interesting thoughts about how to define success for video games in today’s market, particularly for those using early access. Lots of respect for Hooded Horse’s CEO, Tim Bender, he says all the right things and seems genuine....
who's your TNG lover? (www.threads.net)
EV sales stall in US and Europe as market uncertainty persists (www.ey.com)
VR game streaming tool ALVR adds PipeWire support on Linux (www.gamingonlinux.com)
US to expand security review of land purchases near military installations, Treasury says (www.reuters.com)
Cross-posted from sh.itjust.works/post/21971374...
The President Ordered a Board to Probe a Massive Russian Cyberattack. It Never Did. (www.propublica.org)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/24651183...
Gothic, Risen, and Elex Dev "Piranha Bytes" Reportedly the Latest Embracer Studio to Shut Down (www.ign.com)
Sony is killing off recordable Blu-ray, bidding farewell to disc burning | TechSpot (www.techspot.com)
Kyiv children’s hospital hit as Russian missile attack kills at least 29 in Ukraine (www.theguardian.com)
An unknown number of people have been trapped under rubble after Ukraine’s largest children’s hospital was hit during a daylight Russian missile barrage that the authorities said had killed at least 29 people across the country....
Notepad’s spellcheck and autocorrect are rolling out to everybody after 41 years (arstechnica.com)
It's still bare-bones by most standards, but Notepad has evolved a lot recently.
Beryl weakens to tropical storm after sweeping into Texas as Cat 1 hurricane (apnews.com)
7 Essential Linux Terms Explained: Distro, DE, Repos, and More (www.howtogeek.com)
The Linux Kernel...
Australia accused of discriminating against disabled migrants (www.bbc.com)
Australia accused of discriminating against disabled migrants...
Microsoft bans China-based employees from using Android devices for work, mandates switch to iPhones (www.techspot.com)
Microsoft has told all its employees in China that they will soon only be allowed to use iPhones for work purposes. The ban on Android devices is part of a security-related Microsoft initiative for providing a unified way of managing and verifying employee identities....
Tesla investors to urge judge to reject record $7 bln legal fee in Musk pay case (www.reuters.com)
Tesla shareholders will appear in court on Monday to argue that an unprecedented request for more than $7 billion in attorneys’ fees to be paid by the company is “outlandish,” the latest twist in a legal showdown over Musk’s $56 billion pay package....
